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I laughed way too hard at this
in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!
OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT
HOLY SHIT
this guy GETS IT
my god he DOES
me, a legal adult: when i grow up,
What were you by age 25? I dont trust wikipedia when I can ask the Man himself, and you're the only Big Known Person who feels Friend enough to ask this. Additional question, what should one be by 25 you think, in this era of "quick quick quick, be everything right now or else the world will leave you" ?
I was, aged 25, a broke and unknown freelance journalist with two small children, who had published three, perhaps four short stories. My first two books (non-fiction) had come out and vanished. I had just had the idea for The Graveyard Book but I knew I wasn’t a good enough writer to do it justice. I was hungry. I’d written two comics short stories to try and teach myself how to write comics, but wasn’t sure what to do next.
What should you be by 25? You should be storing up life experiences, getting fired from jobs, getting your heart broken, living on noodles, all of that. But I suspect the depths of worry and misery that one gets merely by existing currently will probably do just as well.
Hilda by Duane Bryers
More Hilda!!
in this family we love and support Hilda.
Yes! Hilda!
What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.
I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day
I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy
more Hilda!
I freaking love Hilda, there’s needs to be more art like this.
Me after thinking about something for three day straight: it… really isn’t that serious
Apartment #410 is Emily Goldfinch. Curly black hair, always smiling, a little chatty for my taste.
im in constant pursuit of comedy. i live for jokes. if i die it better be funny
why are boys hot and cute like wtf take a break
half of the notes on this post are people going “um i think you meant girls and also i hate boys they are disgusting” and the other half is boys going “this isnt about me nobody could ever feel that way about me” like do you maybe see a connection here?? and also could you stop??
Boys are so cute!!! Small soft boys! Big buff boys! Tall skinny boys! In between boys! Boys are adorable!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m not even attracted to boys but yes??? can confirm???
Boys are amazing, especially nice ones who sympathize with you and make you feel beautiful even if you look like shit.
Soft boys! Trans boys! Boys with chubby cheeks! Skinny boys! Lanky boys! Boys with acne scars! Boys who run! Boys who draw! Boys who cuddle! Asian boys! Black boys! Brown boys! Pale boys! Short boys! Quiet boys! Funny boys! Boys with anxiety! Boys with autism! Dyslexic boys! ADHD boys! Athletic boys! Math boys! Boys who grew up watching history documentaries! Gamer boys! Fashion boys! ALL THE BOYS!
👏👏👏 GOOD POST
BOYS!!!!!
After all the boy-dragging that goes on on this hellsite, thank you
Appreciate boys with good souls
Kind hearted boys deserve the world
I really appreciate this not much stuff like it here so when I come across it always puts a smile on my face
can confirm
😍😍😍😍
push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.
push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.
get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.
stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.
buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.
buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.
strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.
organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.
have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.
push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.
message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.
think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.
become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.
lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.
i just realised that in the time it took for freddie to walk out of the kitchen and light a cigarette, roger completely destroyed everyone’s breakfasts. completely.
this is what it looked like right after he threw bacon at brian’s face, everything’s still in place, everyone has food.
then cut to freddie walking out, in the background you can hear crashing and roger yelling. i’d have assumed that maybe he threw a few more things, maybe a plate or some more food, but no…
he wiped the whole fucking bench clean.
the only things left are whatever deaky and brian had been holding before the attack, which just so happens to be a fork with a sausage on the end, and a teacup. this man is the definition of chaotic energy
Ma'am, your organs are shutting down.
Wombman
imagine being so insufferably self righteous even your organs yeet
I think it’s wrong that i should have to read this post without someone giving me some weed or something so I can deal with reading this post.
Scroll if you want to learn who these guys are and what they did. You will also read about a Lord, a henna user, who had best haircut and Queen’s favorite food. (I wrote in bold letters the parts about Queen members and some funny facts.)
1. a"rigger". They assemble the stage (all 6000 square feet of it). Sometimes this can take two days, so there are two stages on this European tour. While one is being taken down at one venue, the other is being assembled at the next.
2 another “rigger”.
3 John “Tumbridge” Wells, one of the security men responsible for looking after the members of Queen. “Tumbridge” looks after Brian May, escorts him wherever he goes and keeps the fans from getting too close.
4 Wally Gore group security, he looks after John Deacon
5 Alex Alexandrou, carpenter. There’s two of us, and we put up all the stage scenery. I put up the walkways around the back and sides of the stage wich Freddie runs along. He likes to run on carpet, so I have to lay that down everywhere.
6. Chris “Crystal” Taylor, group coordinator. He organises all of the personal Queen crew, roadies, the security men. He makes sure they all know what they have to do and when they have to do it.
7. Jim Deveney, monitor engineer. “I sit out of sight on stage. I have to make things sound good so that the band can hear what they’re doing. The sound comes through these speakers called "monitors” wich face onto the stage. The worst act I ever worked for was Rod Stewart. He was really miserable.
8. Joe Fanelli, Freddie’s main personal assistant, who cooks for him at his London Home. “He likes anything really exotic, North African food, curries, good French cooking. He hates veal and doesn’t eat carrots. Lambs is a bit iffy too. Brian’s vegetarian but he eats fish. John likes very simple food, pie and mash and Roger likes anything but lamb.
9. Tony Williams, in charge of Queen’s wardrobe. "I have to look after all of the band’s stage clothes. That includes lots of details like making sure all the changes of clothes they need are backstage (Freddie changes about three times each performance), labelling the band’s stage shoes (because they all wear the same stripey Adidas), and looking after Freddie’s special moustache scissors. Also I have to wash all of their clothes in my hotel bedroom. My bath is always full. And Brian May has been using all this red henna do dye his hair and it comes out all over his shirts. It’s very hectic”.
10. Brandan Hyland, group security
11. One of the 15 “truckers” who each drive a massive 40 feet lorry loaded up with sound and lighting equipment. (For extra money they also operate the spotlights wich “follow” the group around stage).
12. Brian “Jobby” Zellis. one of Queen’s personal road crew.
13 Brian May, Queen’s guitarist.
14 John “Moxy” Glover, Roger Taylor’s personnal roadie. “Basically I have to look after his drum kit and set it up on stage. I have to keep him supllied with drum sticks. He has sticks made with his own name on and he uses about ten sets a show. I got a bit drunk with Status Quo’s roadies in Paris earlier this tour, and started throwing all his sticks in the audience.
15. Terry Giddings, group security.
16. Dieter Breit, physiotherapist for the group and crew. He has to look after any sprains and injuries that anybody might suffer, e.g. a sprained guitar-playing finger which needs massaging on Brian May’s valuable hand.
17. A lighting assistant.
18. A "rigger”
19. Peter “Ratty” Hince, one of Queen’s personal road crew. “I have to look after John Deacon’s bass guitars and Freddie’s guitar and special radio microphones (the one that don’t have a fead) and keyboard instruments. I have to make sure that everything is exactly where it should be on stage, otherwise Freddie particularly will glare and let me know if anything’s wrong. He’s very particular about things being just right. Personally I don’t enjoy these tour as much as the old ones. Nowadays ther’s too much equipment, too many hangers-on, and everybody’s trying to be important.”
20. John “Collie” Collins, one of Queen’s personnal road crew. “I’m the spare man, really. I work with Ratty and the piano tuner, help to see that everything is where it should be at the right time. Do you know I got married yesterday! I celebrated the wedding with the band and crew. It had to be squeezed in during the tour.
21. Roger Taylor, Those "shades”! That turned up collar! Must be Queen’s drummer.
22. A trucker
23. Another trucker.
24. A rigger.
25. Another rigger
26 John Deacon, youn know , Queen’s bass player, the one with the good haircut.
27 Tom “Midget” Foehlinger, sound monitor
28 An unknown person who sneaked in
29 Mickey Conafray, trucker
30 Mick Riddle, caterer
31 A lighting assistant
32 Albert Sutton, truck driver. “I carry the sound system, or some of it. We don’t see the band or the road crew most of the time, because we travel ahead of everyone else. We have to get to the site before they do, and although we help with the setting up, we’re off for two days while the rest of them are working on the concert. There are 15 "truckers” on this tour, plus the bus wich takes the road crew and sometimes the band. The worst thing about this job is being away from home for a long time when you’re on tour. And the best thing is…erm maybe that should be a secret".
33. A caterer
34 Dave Lewis, another Caterer
35 A sound monitor.
36 Stave Benjamins, one of Queen’s personal road crew, or “roadies” as they hate to be called. They look after all the instruments, microphones and amplifiers which Queen use on stage, setting them up, tuning them, and keep them clean.
37. another trucker"
38. Dave Thomas, caterer. I’ve been catering for Queen since 1975, every tour. The band eat the same food as everyone else, but they do have certain favorite foods. After a show they usually like an omelette or sometimes beans on toast or occasionally a steak au poivre. They’re also pretty fond of Indonesian cooking".
39. Rex Ray, second sound engineer. He mixes the sound for all the support groups.
40. Spike Edney, keybordist and second guitar player: “ My biggest fear is that it might get too damp, which makes the synthesisers cut out. I just pray that I’m out of clouting range of Freddie if that happens. He might not realise why I’m not playing and he’d be very upset if he thought I was daydreaming of something. But Queen on the whole are great to work with and they get drunk a lot too. Champagne every night, it’s great!
41. Simon tutchener, lighting director. "I operate the main lighting console during the concert. It took three weeks to rehearse. I have a crew who set all the lights up, and 14 spotlights operators who I control through an intercom system and one man on a "Ver-lite”, plus a man on the colour changer computer, plus a man on a computer which controls the up and down movement of the whole lighting rig, and then there are a few bits on stage, including Brian May special spaceship thing which comes down during his solo spot with all the flashing lights and…“ (that’s quite enought about lighting. Ed)
42 Stage rigger, who helps to set up the 6000 square feet of stage (all carpetted)
43 Sylvia Reed, assistant to the tour manager, Gerry Stickells. She is really a personal secretary.
44. James "Trip” Khalaf, chief sound enginer: “I mix the live sound for Queen, and I’m in overall charge for the half a million watts of PA (ie sound system. pa means Public adress) that we’re carting around.
45. Lord Frederick Lucan of Mercury. You know him. Freddie.
46. "Phoebe”, one of Freddie’s personal assistants. These people help to arrange Sir Frederick’s day, making sure he gets to appointments on time, and taking care of all those little details, which keep him happy.
47. A rigger
48. Lyndsey Beckingham, caterer. One of a team of five who feed the crew and the group. The caterers have their own van to transport all the food, cookers and fridges necessary to feed up to 60 people three times a day.
49 Bill Louthe, sound monitor. One of the assistants to the chief sound engineer, who sets up the massive sound system making sure it works perfectly, and run around while Queen are on stage, putting things right ( like tangled wiring) and making sure that there are no problems which could cause any deterioration of the sound quality.
50. Dave Mills, head of backstage and front of stage security. “My job is to stop any skirmishes or fights by pulling people out, people who faint, and putting in the hands of the first aid people. Earlier on this tour, in Dublin, I pulled out a young man whose ear was barely hanging on by a thread, probably because some idiot threw a glass.”
51 Gerry Stickells, tout manager. The most important poeple on the tour. He looks after the road crew, from the lighting team to caterers; hiring them, making sure that they’re paid and that everyone’s alright. (he even remembers every crew member’s birthday, making a fuss of them so they get too miserable). The other important thing he does is to go out months before the tour to look at the planned concert sites and to make all the thousands of arrangements that need to be made in advance. He’s been working with acts like Rod Steward and Elton John and has organised Queen’s road tour for 11 years. “They have to be highly-strung crazy people, they have to in order to ware themselves up to perform. So I admire them, yes. But I wouldn’t want to socialise with them. Soon as this tour is over I’ll go home and watch television.”
52 Mike Weisman, production and stage manager. “I’m in charge of seeing that the stage and scenery is all but together properly. We work all day to get everything right. I have to coordinate all the work of the riggers and carpenters.”
2019 is the year where we stop blaming AIDS victims for their deaths
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So acquiring a disease that only requires that you not make bad decisions in order to not acquire it, is somehow not your fault?
Weird flex, but okay.
my guy, you have it so wrong.
So first of all, the knowledge of HIV and how it is spread, isn’t always taught. This is obvious for the AIDS crisis back in the day, but it is still relevant now. You have to realise that sex ed isn’t always taught and that a lot of people don’t have the knowledge on how it is transmitted. This obviously results in both same and opposite sex couples who end up accidentally getting the disease because of their lack of knowledge. Lack of proper education is to blame here- not the people who made a stupid mistake.
There are also other cases which apply, such as if a condom broke, or rape. Granted, these are uncommon, but the people that get the disease from this are not to blame for their fate.
this doesn’t even mention the many other ways that HIV can be transmitted.
I don’t think I even need to explain why you can’t blame people from the 70′s and 80′s (especially gay men) from contracting the disease. If you need me to explain that, then you are almost completely uneducated on the subject.
I worked in the medical field for the past 5 years. I know exactly what I’m talking about.
HIV is one of the most easiest to prevent diseases on the planet.
Don’t share used needles, and don’t have sex if you have HIV.
That’s it. You couldn’t make it any more simpler than that.
The only way you could unknowingly be infected with HIV is if someone infected you willing.
The chain of infection has a beginning, and if that beginning doesn’t link a new chain, no new infections would happen.
HIV may not be as contagious as TB, but it kills just the same.
Yes you have the medical knowledge but what you lack is the compassion. You never should blame a victim of a disease for their illness.
That being said, HIV itself can remain dormant for an incubation period of 10 years before the infected person shows symptoms IF it develops into AIDS. so one may not even know they have AIDs itself unless they are tested.
And due to the stigma because of society some people don’t want to have the test because they know they may just be blamed for an illness that could kill them if not properly treated or looked at differently. They’ll be seen with less empathy because “you shoulda just kept it in your pants instead of having sex if you knew you had HIV.” So instead they decide not to get tested.
So I’ll say it again: NEVER BLAME VICTIMS OF ANY ILLNESS OF ANY KIND. ITS NOT THEIR FAULT.
If your victim status is directly a result of your willing actions, you deserve everything you get. If you’re a victim of unwilling happenstance, I can have empathy.
Compassion is earned in respect to the context of the situation.
Compassion should never be earned. Ever. it’s a given. We are all human beings and should be treated as such. No matter what our situation.
You would never blame someone for a mental illness so why the hell would you blame someone for a physical illness?
NO ONE DESERVES TO BE SICK. EVER. That is honestly the most inhumane thought process I’ve ever heard. Just like no one deserves to be murdered for their sexuality, gender, skin color or anything else outside of their control.
Congratulations on taking my entire stance out of context in order to fuel your echo-chamber.
Everything in life is earned. I don’t owe anyone a God damned thing. If I want to be compassionate, I’ll do of my own accord. Who are you to tell me what I can and can’t feel towards myself or others?
If you shoot yourself in the foot, the blame is solely on you. I’m not going to feel compassionate for someone’s self inflicted injuries.
There’s a difference between being a true and a false victim. False victims receive no empathy from me.
I’m glad you seem to be from Europe b/c that means I’ll never have a chance of being under your medical care.
Maybe they have better sex ed classes where you live, but in many parts of America, Republicans have legislated sex ed classes into being woefully misleading. I live in a state where we were taught “abstinence only,” as in the only thing we’re taught about sex is “these are STDs, they are bad, the only way to prevent them is to not have sex.” And while that’s mostly true (besides needles), it’s not remotely realistic & if you don’t happen to have a teacher who decides to take matters into her own hands & tell you about condoms, etc., you could end up totally unaware of safe sex.
So if you end up dating someone who used to shoot up & is HIV+ (but has no symptoms so even he doesn’t know), if you don’t know how to have safe sex, you could end up in trouble. It’s also passed mother to child, so if a woman doesn’t know she is HIV+, she could spread that to several children before realizing it. Similarly, mainly places in Africa have been & are devastated by AIDS due to a lack of education & some people who actually spread deadly misinformation. It’s also spread there by blood transfusions & other medical injections due to hospitals reusing needles due to a lack of supplies.
Besides, if you met a random person w/ HIV/AIDS, you wouldn’t know how they got it. It could be any of the possible ways with any of the possible scenarios that led to it. Even if someone is a “false victim,” if they become ill afterward, you can bet they’ll regret whatever they did to contract HIV & will be thinking what they could’ve done differently. If you believe in redemption or even simply changing your mind or your ways, it isn’t very hard to feel even some empathy for a person like that
I’ve said before how I won’t pick apart the movie, but I keep thinking about that one scene in BoRhap where Freddie’s just moved in to Garden Lodge and begs Rog to stay for dinner & how Roger says no, he has to get back to his family, and how it just doesn’t match up with real life at all. The Roger who stayed up all hours of the night and morning drinking earl grey and playing Scrabble with Freddie — who sat in garden lodge playing with trains with Brian & Freddie on Christmas Day, all while Jim watched them play like “big hairy kids” — who screeched back and forth with Freddie before shows to warm up and calm their nerves, and sat around with him giggling over who-knows-what — That Roger would never have left Freddie alone that night.
FACTS
STRAIGHT FACTS RIGHT HERE
Bo Rhap did a complete disservice to Roger and Freddie’s friendship. There was no early Kensington Market stuff so they might as well have started off as strangers and the conflict about Freddie going solo was so forced. Even though everyone irl was super casual about it?? And Roger and Brian went solo for a bit too and Roger was even in Freddie’s music video for The Great Pretender??? But whatever movie’s gotta have their big dumb protagonist’s fight and split up before the climax trope I guess.
If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think
My love for this post is unbelievable.
